Blogpoll Draft Ballot: Week Three

by LVS on Sep 20, 2009 10:31 PM CDT in Michigan State Spartans Football

(More about the Notre Dame game tomorrow.)

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Alabama	1
2	Florida	1
3	Texas	1
4	California	2
5	Mississippi
6	Penn State	1
7	LSU	2
8	Miami (Florida)	12
9	Boise State	5
10	Southern Cal	9
11	Ohio State	1
12	Cincinnati	5
13	Virginia Tech	1
14	Oklahoma	1
15	Houston	3
16	TCU
17	Oklahoma State	2
18	Michigan	3
19	Iowa
20	Georgia Tech	9
21	Florida State
22	Missouri	1
23	Georgia	1
24	Brigham Young	16
25	Washington
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: Utah (#15), Nebraska (#22), Auburn (#25).

Games watched: Michigan State vs. Notre Dame (in person), Texas vs. Texas Tech (uh, not in person).

In detail:

Uh, well that was a short stay at the top for USC. Alabama's week one win over Virginia Tech is more impressive than anything Florida or Texas has done, so they're number one. The difference between Florida and Texas is negligible; home wins over Tennessee and Texas Tech seem like a comparative wash to me.
Cal gets #4. Jahvid Best is absolutely unreal, and Kevin Riley looked good enough to win the Pac-10.
And, a week after dropping Miami 5 spots, they're up 12 this week . . . and it's totally deserved, IMO.
Cincinnati looks more impressive each week. They should cruise in the Big East this year.
BYU falls a lot and Utah is out, obviously. As far as BCS crashers go, it's Boise or bust at this point.
On the cusp: Kansas, Auburn, UCLA.

Your turn.

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Interesting

You jumped Cal over Penn State for a quality win, that I agree with. But you keep LSU and Miami behind Penn State even though they beat Washington, FSU and GT and PSU has beat no one.

I would rank Iowa ahead of Michigan. Michigan has been bad defensively this year. Iowa can at least play defense.

I do like how fast you are moving Cincinatti up. They have won two quality road games this year. That is impressive as most teams like to stay at home (cough Penn State cough).

I would drop Georgia Tech and Washington in favor of Auburn and Kansas. I tend to put the undefeateds ahead of the defeateds.

by DrDetroit on Sep 21, 2009 5:57 AM CDT reply actions

I'll endorse most....

…of this. I think PSU is good, but I wouldn’t mind leaving them lower until they get into the Big 10 and beat some quality teams.

I think U of M beats Iowa on resume, though. Wolvies’ close loss is Norte Dame, which I’m inclined to treat as pretty good, though NIU is looking better week by week.

by witless chum on Sep 21, 2009 9:03 AM CDT reply actions